Demographic inferences after a range expansion can be biased: the test case of the blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus).

abstract：:Investigations into the genetic basis of reproductive barriers among recognized and putative varieties in Phacelia dubia have provided evidence that even among closely related taxa, multiple pathways can lead to reproductive isolation. A nuclear-based reproductive barrier, expressed as partial hybrid sterility of both...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Levy F

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing attention has been paid to the maternally inherited microbes that are capable of manipulating the reproduction of their hosts for their own benefit. Although several studies have revealed that the host genotype can affect the intensity of the manipulation, the underlying genetic basis is poorly understood. ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kageyama D,Anbutsu H,Shimada M,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic resources developed for domesticated species provide powerful tools for studying the evolutionary history of their wild relatives. Here we use 61K single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) evenly spaced throughout the canine nuclear genome to analyse evolutionary relationships among the three largest European pop...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Pilot M,Greco C,vonHoldt BM,Jędrzejewska B,Randi E,Jędrzejewski W,Sidorovich VE,Ostrander EA,Wayne RK

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease-associated variants in the human genome are continually being identified using DNA sequencing technologies that are especially effective for Mendelian disorders. Here we sequenced whole genome to high coverage (>30×) of 6 members of a 7-generation family with dwarfism from a consanguineous tribe in Pakistan to...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zhang C,Liu J,Iqbal F,Lu Y,Mustafa S,Bukhari F,Lou H,Fu R,Wu Z,Yang X,Bukhari I,Aslam M,Xu S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization between wild and domestic bovine species occurs worldwide either spontaneously or by organized crossing. We have analysed hybridization of banteng (Bos javanicus) and zebu (Bos indicus) in south-east Asian cattle using mitochondrial DNA (PCR-RFLP and sequencing), AFLP, satellite fragment length polymorph...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Nijman IJ,Otsen M,Verkaar EL,de Ruijter C,Hanekamp E,Ochieng JW,Shamshad S,Rege JE,Hanotte O,Barwegen MW,Sulawati T,Lenstra JA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is great uncertainty about how Ireland attained its current fauna and flora. Long-distance human-mediated colonization from southwestern Europe has been seen as a possible way that Ireland obtained many of its species; however, Britain has (surprisingly) been neglected as a source area for Ireland. The pygmy shr...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： McDevitt AD,Vega R,Rambau RV,Yannic G,Herman JS,Hayden TJ,Searle JB

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the distribution of worldwide human genomic diversity has greatly increased over recent years thanks to the availability of large data sets derived from short tandem repeats (STRs), insertion deletion polymorphisms (indels) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). A concern, however, is that th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Romero IG,Manica A,Goudet J,Handley LL,Balloux F

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fisher's model for the evolution of dominance indicates that the accumulation of dominance modifiers will be accelerated by (1) an increased frequency of the mutant heterozygote, (2) increased selection for the phenotype of the normal homozygote. The model has been criticised by Haldane on the grounds that point (1) i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Manning JT

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were carried out to correlate the cytological localization of DNA polymerase alpha with the presence of its specific mRNA in human lymphocytes studied at different times after phytohaemagglutinin stimulation. Our data indicated that in resting cells it is not possible to detect DNA polymerase alpha protein...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ennas MG,Suzuki H,Menegazzi M,Carcereri A,Hanaoka F,Gremo F,Nieddu M,Mezzanotte R

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical evidence is mounting to suggesting that genetic correlations between life-history traits are environment specific. However, detailed knowledge about the loci underlying genetic correlations in different environments is scant. Here, we studied the influence of temperature (12 degrees C and 24 degrees C) on th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gutteling EW,Doroszuk A,Riksen JA,Prokop Z,Reszka J,Kammenga JE

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of sexual selection in population divergence is of much interest, mainly because it is thought to cause reproductive isolation and hence could lead to speciation. Sexually selected traits have been hypothesized to diverge faster between populations than other traits, presumably because of differences in...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Svensson EI,Kristoffersen L,Oskarsson K,Bensch S

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model is described for the biometrical analysis of interaction behavioural characteristics. The model is illustrated by analysis of the mating speed of Drosophila pseudoobscura derived from crosses of fast and of slow mating strains generated through artificial selection. ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kraemer HC,Kessler S

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolbachia is an intracellular endosymbiont that induces a variety of reproductive alterations in diverse arthropods. The almond moth, Cadra cautella, is double infected with two Wolbachia variants, wCauA and wCauB, and expresses complete cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). The individual contribution of wCauA and wCauB ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sasaki T,Massaki N,Kubo T

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) are in an impending risk of going extinct in the wild as a consequence of damaging anthropogenic impact on their natural habitat and illegal pet and bushmeat trade. Conservation management programmes for the chimpanzee have been established outside their natural r...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Frandsen P,Fontsere C,Nielsen SV,Hanghøj K,Castejon-Fernandez N,Lizano E,Hughes D,Hernandez-Rodriguez J,Korneliussen TS,Carlsen F,Siegismund HR,Mailund T,Marques-Bonet T,Hvilsom C

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary sex-determining signal in the haplodiploid wasp Nasonia vitripennis is not known. In haplodiploid reproduction, unfertilized eggs typically develop into uniparental haploid males and fertilized eggs into biparental diploid females. Although this reproductive strategy is common to all Hymenoptera, sex-deter...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Trent C,Crosby C,Eavey J

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the evidence that the Pleistocene climatic fluctuations have seriously affected the distribution of intraspecific diversity, less is known on its impact on interspecific divergence. In this study, we aimed to test the hypothesis that the divergence of two desert poplar species Populus euphratica Oliv. and P. p...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wang J,Källman T,Liu J,Guo Q,Wu Y,Lin K,Lascoux M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The simple regression method of mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) is further investigated in comparison with the mixture model maximum likelihood method under high heritabilities, dominant and missing markers. No significant difference between the two methods is detected in terms of errors of parameter estimation ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Xu S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in chromosome number have a critical role in the evolution and formation of plant species. Triploids, which carry three complete sets of chromosomes, in particular produce offspring with different chromosome numbers, including diploid and tetraploid progeny, as well as a swarm of aneuploid progeny, which carry...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Henry IM,Dilkes BP,Tyagi AP,Lin HY,Comai L

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of pollen dispersal are central to both the ecology and evolution of plant populations. However, the mechanisms controlling either the dispersal process itself or our estimation of that process may be influenced by site-specific factors such as local forest structure and nonuniform adult genetic structure. He...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Dyer RJ,Westfall RD,Sork VL,Smouse PE

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicellular organisms probably originated as groups of cells formed in several ways, including cell proliferation from a group of founder cells and aggregation. Cooperation among cells benefits the group, but may be costly (altruistic) or beneficial (synergistic) to individual cooperating cells. In this paper, we st...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Michod RE,Roze D

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether or not evolution by natural selection is predictable depends on the existence of general patterns shaping the way mutations interact with the genetic background. This interaction, also known as epistasis, has been observed during adaptation (macroscopic epistasis) and in individual mutations (microscopic epist...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Passagem-Santos D,Zacarias S,Perfeito L

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model involving a specific pairing of homologous double-stranded nucleic acid molecules is applied to some parts of genetic recombination. The most original features of this application of the model relate to the initiation process, a part of which can be described by a highly compact and symmetrical structure. The ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： McGavin S

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditional average frequency of rare alleles has been shown in simulations to provide a simple and robust estimator of the number of individuals exchanged between local populations in an island model (Nm). This statistic is defined as the average frequency of an allele in those samples in which the allele is pres...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Barton NH,Slatkin M

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theoretical impacts of anthropogenic habitat degradation on genetic resources have been well articulated. Here we use a simulation approach to assess the magnitude of expected genetic change, and review 31 studies of 23 neotropical tree species to assess whether empirical case studies conform to theory. Major diff...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lowe AJ,Boshier D,Ward M,Bacles CF,Navarro C

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila mauritiana larvae are tolerant to ethanol as a supplementary nutritional resource at low concentrations. Higher levels of ethanol (5 per cent) in the food adversely affect larval behaviour causing reduced rates of locomotion and feeding which are associated with low larva-to-adult survival. Two codominant a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Muhammad-Ali AZ,Burnet B

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbreeding (mating between relatives) can dramatically reduce the fitness of offspring by causing parts of the genome to be identical by descent. Thus, measuring individual inbreeding is crucial for ecology, evolution and conservation biology. We used computer simulations to test whether the realized proportion of the...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kardos M,Luikart G,Allendorf FW

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique for the examination of chromosomes in testicular material in Nucella lapillus is described. The diploid chromosome number varies between 26 and 36. Eight pairs of meatcentric chromosomes are always present and range in size from 9mu to 4mu. Additionally, 10 pairs of acrocentric chromosomes (4mu to 1mu) are...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bantock CR,Cockayne WC

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolve and resequence (E&R) is a new approach to investigate the genomic responses to selection during experimental evolution. By using whole genome sequencing of pools of individuals (Pool-Seq), this method can identify selected variants in controlled and replicable experimental settings. Reviewing the current state ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Schlötterer C,Kofler R,Versace E,Tobler R,Franssen SU

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To confirm whether sex-linked genes of the silkworm are dosage compensated or not, we investigated three RAPDs and one RFLP marker which have been mapped to the Z chromosome as candidate genes to test for dosage compensation. Northern blot analysis demonstrated that one of the RAPDs, T15.180a, is transcribed into seve...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Suzuki MG,Shimada T,Kobayashi M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red deer representing the four different European subspecies Cervus elaphus atlanticus, C. e. elaphus, C. e. germanicus, and C. e. scoticus were examined for allozyme variability at 35 enzyme loci. The proportion of polymorphic loci within populations (P) ranged from 0 to 13.8 per cent and the average heterozygosity (...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gyllenstein U,Ryman N,Reuterwall C,Dratch P

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00